Better Program or Better School overall?

I know so few students who end up majoring in what they thought they’d major in that my vote would be choose the school, not the department. But obviously every year kids head off to college with a major in mind- and end up in that major- but none of my kids, nor their friends, nor the kids of my friends.

One of my kids was a physics major for two weeks. Literally two weeks. Cheerfully pivoted- love the college but being the top physics kid in your HS and being a physics major surrounded by the top physics kids in the world (like- half the Olympiad winners!) was not the same thing!

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